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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 66101 82649NMR record:SX 68 SE 4HER record:6537Megalithic Portal:1738PMD:Assycombe Standing StoneShortName: SS:AssycombeButler map: 35.19DPD page: 135Notes: Bronze Age stone row and cairn, Assycombe. The double stone row is 120m long terminating in the cairn at the North-East end. The South-West end is blocked by a stone 2.0m high. The largest stone, 2m high, lies at the E end and was re-erected re-erected by Baring-Gould in 1892 or 1893. The cairn is 8.4m in diameter and 0.6m high.Nearby sites:SX66108265Distance: 1.21km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 66095 82641NMR record:SX 68 SE 4HER record:6537Megalithic Portal:1738The Stone Rows of GB:Assycombe Stone RowPMD:Assycombe Stone RowShortName: SR:AssycombeButler map: 35.19DPD page: 135Notes: "Bronze Age stone row and cairn, Assycombe. The double stone row is 120m long terminating in the cairn at the North-East end. The South-West end is blocked by a stone 2.0m high, re-erected there by Baring-Gould. The cairn is 8.4m in diameter and 0.6m high. Scheduled." Also from Burnard's 1892 field notes: The row, which starts from a ruined cairn, consists of 84 standing stones, and extends 800 feet E. and W., running in two rows down the hill towards Assycombe. It terminates towards the W. in a stone lying prone, 5' 9" long. 2'' wide. The avenue is from 5' to 6' wide, inner measurement. The stones composing the row are 18" high, and down to 6".Nearby sites:SX66108264Distance: 1.2km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 66102 82650NMR record:SX 68 SE 4HER record:6538Megalithic Portal:45814PMD:Assycombe Stone RowAlternate name: Assycombe Hill Stone Row Encircled Cairn and CistShortName: CT:AssycombeButler map: 35.19Butler Vol 5: p.232 & Fig.164DPD page: 135Grinsell: LYD 26Turner: F16Notes: The cairn at the E end is in line with the N of the two rows. It measures 8.4m in diameter and is 0.6m high. It contains a large quantity of stone; two stones in the centre, set at right angles to each other around a hollow, suggest the remains of a cist.Nearby sites:SX66108265Distance: 1.21km

OS Map:SX 68686 81654NMR record:SX 68 SE 16HER record:6673Megalithic Portal:34981Alternate name: Birch Tor Summit CairnShortName: CN:Birch TorButler map: 24.4Grinsell: N.BOV 1Barrow Report: 56 Notes: "The heavily disturbed remains of a large, flat-topped cairn lie on the ridge crest 230 metres north of Birch Tor. The centre and south margin of this feature have apparently suffered from an unrecorded excavation with spoil dumped to the south and on the east fringe of the mound. Two large upright slabs are embedded in the unexcavated interior of the cairn and may have previously been interpreted as elements of a kerb even though they lie several metres in from the actual edge of the feature. 10m to the north-west of the cairn is a warren boundary stone inscribed with the letters`WB'on its eastern side."Nearby sites:SX68698165Distance: 1.7km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 67120 83750NMR record:SX 68 SE 42HER record:6650Megalithic Portal:14933ShortName: SS:Heath StoneButler map: 25.Notes: The original Heath Stone was a boundary stone which was referred to in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor in 1240 and some very early maps. According to Butler (Vol. 2 Map 25 p.32) the stone carved with a biblical inscription in 1970 that is currently known as the Heath Stone is unlikely to have been the original Heath Stone as it is in a useless position to be of any use as a boundary stone. The stone was not included in maps from the 18th century and then reappeared in a different location. It is doubtful that the current stone is the original or that it is prehistoric. Crossing suggests that the large standing stone in the Hurston Ridge stone row is the actual Heath Stone. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Dartmoor HeathstoneNearby sites:SX67128375Distance: 1.91km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 67280 82490NMR record:SX 68 SE 10HER record:6541Megalithic Portal:8345PMD:Hurston Ridge Standing StoneShortName: SS:HurstonRidgButler map: 25.9DPD page: 136Notes: Hurston Ridge is one of the best examples of a double stone now on Dartmoor. At the south end is a cairn 22feet in diameter. The space between the rows widens intentionally as it approaches the cairn. The first stone from the south in the eastern row is the largest stone and stands 5 feet 10 inches high. Crossing suggests this may have been the original Heath Stone. A cinerary urn, in fragments except for the rim, was discovered in the cairn in 1900. Restored, the urn, 18 3/4 inches high, 16 inches in diameter at the rim and 8 inches in diameter at the base was revealed as an unusually large and handsome bipartite Overhanging rim or crowned urn of Middle Bronze Age type.Nearby sites:SX67288249Distance: 0.71km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone RowOS Map:SX 67260 82437NMR record:SX 68 SE 10HER record:6541Megalithic Portal:8345The Stone Rows of GB:Hurston RidgePMD:Hurston Ridge Stone RowShortName: SR:HurstonButler map: 25.9Butler Vol 5: p.228 & Fig.161DPD page: 136Notes:.Worth: Watern Hill. "A stone alignment which includes two parallel lines of upright stones leading downslope for 143 metres from a round cairn. The lower end of the alignment is denoted by a blocking stone. Midway along the alignment a length of later enclosure walling crosses the row. The cairn at the upper end of the alignment measures 5.9 metres in diameter and stands up to a height of 0.6 metres. A large slab denoting the north eastern edge of the cairn may represent a second blocking stone of the associated alignment. A cinerary urn was found in the cairn." A number of the stones were restored to their original sockets in 1894. A broken hand axe was discovered in the pit in which one of the stones had stood near to the menhir next to the cairn.Nearby sites:SX67268244Distance: 0.65km

OS Map:SX 67158 81299NMR record:SX 68 SE 19HER record:6675Megalithic Portal:34690PMD:Water Hill Possible Chambered CairnAlternate name: Water Hill 1 CairnShortName: CN:Kings OvenButler map: 26.5.1Butler Vol 5: p.156 & Fig.95Grinsell: CHA 6Notes: Situated at SX 67158129 on the rounded summit of Water Hill is the remains of a substantial round cairn 18.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.4 metres high in the east and 0.9 metres in the west. The whole of the central area of the cairn has been robbed to construct a superimposed modern boundary cairn 4.0 metres in diam and 2.1 metres high. This has given a 'dished' appearance to the cairn proper. Several large slabs averging 0.8 metres by 0.7 metres scattered around the base of the boundary cairn may be the remains of a destroyed cist.

The southern flat topped cairn measures 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres in height and is surmounted by a modern stone pile. A large slab situated to the south of this pile may have been part of a cist. Nearby sites:SX67168130Distance: 0.56km

OS Map:SX 65348 81091NMR record:SX 68 SE 125HER record:54555Megalithic Portal:2144The Stone Rows of GB:Stannon NewtakePMD:Stannon Newtake Stone RowShortName: SR:Stannon NewButler map: 35.21Notes: Possible extension of the White Ridge Stone Row. "Standing stones, possibly a stone row. Forty-six feet S. of the cairn (SX 68 SE 23) are two standing stones, two and a half feet high, their broad planes facing the monument. These, and two others in line, suggest the remains of a stone row, destroyed for materials for an ancient hedge. If a row, it does not point to the centre of the cairn. "Nearby sites:SX65358109Distance: 1.81km

OS Map:SX 67574 82806NMR record:SX 68 SE 7HER record:6615Megalithic Portal:34980PMD:Chagford CommonShortName: CT:WestVitiferButler map: 25.11Grinsell: CHA 4Barrow Report:16Notes: Butler Vol. 2. Map 25.11 ( p.32). Grinsell CHAGFORD 4 (Chagford Common). "The cairn was partially excavated in 1897 by the Barrow Committee of the Devonshire Association. This working revealed a ring of slabs surrounding a cist which had not been previously examined. In the cist there was a complete Bronze Age beaker together with charcoal but no trace of a burial." Cairn survives, restored urn thought to be in Plymouth museum. See: Sixteenth Barrow Report 1897Nearby sites:SX67578281Distance: 1.13km

OS Map:SX 65420 81661NMR record:SX 68 SE 22HER record:6642Megalithic Portal:4145The Stone Rows of GB:White RidgePMD:White Ridge Stone RowShortName: SR:White RidgeButler map: 35.20DPD page: 125Notes: "A double stone row, 620 ft in length from the centre of a cairn at the north end, running nearly due south and slightly downhill. Well preserved at the north end for a short distance but becoming more dilapidated as it approaches the newtake wall at the south end". Lethbridge diagram p.124 and photo top p.125.Nearby sites:SX65428166Distance: 1.59km